Helmuth Möhwald (January 19, 1946 in Goldenöls – March 27, 2018) was a German physicist and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.
[1][2] Möhwald was born in Goldenöls in present-day Zlatá Olešnice in the Czech Republic.
He studied physics at the University of Göttingen, where he received his PhD in 1974 under the supervision of Erich Sackmann.
[1] From 1993 to 2014, Möhwald was a scientific member and director at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.
[4][5] His awards include the Physics Prize of the German Society for Physics (1978), the Liesegang Prize (1998), membership in the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Overbeek Gold Medal of the European Colloid and Interface Society (2007), the Gay-Lussac–Humboldt Prize (2007), an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier (2008), the Wolfgang Ostwald Prize (2009), the Langmuir Lectureship Award from the American Chemical Society (2014), and the Elyuhar-Goldschmidt Award from the Königlich Spanish Society of Chemistry.